Vancouver Courier December 29 2016

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‘This ain’t no trailer park,’ says councillor Jang Naoibh O’Connor

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One of the biggest challenges in addressing homelessness is finding a quality place for people to live, according to Coun.

Kerry Jang.

“Not just anyplace. We have our run-down SROs, but people need a place that’s decent, that’s clean and warm, that gives them dignity, that gives them a place to be stable and to start to heal,” he said during a press conference last week near Main and Terminal where the country’s first ever moveable, modular housing complex is being assembled on cityowned land.

Expected to open for occupancy in mid-February, it will temporarily house people on low or fixed incomes at a rent of $375 a month while permanent housing is being built,

A 40-unit modular housing complex, being built at the corner of Main and Terminal for those with low and fixed incomes, is expected to open in February. PHOTO ROB KRUYT

which can take years.

The three-storey complex is being built by a company called Horizon North and will feature 40 micro-units — 36 measuring 250-square-feet, along with four larger wheelchair-accessible units

located on the main floor.

Each unit, which costs $80,000 to $90,000 to build, has its own bathroom with a shower, a basic kitchen and a closet.

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A sample unit was on display to the public in late October when the city hosted the Re:Address Housing Affordability summit.

They were built at a factory in Kamloops and shipped to Vancouver. The installation was expected to take six days and be completed by Christmas Eve. “As you can see behind us. It looks like regular housing. This ain’t no

trailer park,” Jang told reporters.

Durable materials are being used on the project, including high impact-resistant drywall in the corridors, vinyl wall covering and resilient flooring.

The complex will remain on the Main and Terminal site for up to five years or, if necessary, until the land gets developed. It can then be dismantled, transported and re-assembled on another site that’s not being used or awaiting development. Units have 30 to 40-year lifespans.

Jang hopes more such complexes are built around Vancouver.

Joe Kiss, vice-president of business development-commercial at Horizon North, said moving the complex to another site in the future will cost a fraction of the cost of constructing a new building from scratch.

“As such, this modular building technique is ideal for sites awaiting permanent development, similar to this one, and will prove to be an important tool assisting to meet Vancouver’s affordable housing needs,” he said.

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housing complex Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer and CEO of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, said Sole Food Street Farms, which operates next to the site, promised to offer employment opportunities to tenants once they move in.

The housing agency is developing 2,500 permanent housing units in the

city by 2021 using city sites — 1,000 are in the planning and design stage and will be constructed over the next two to three years.

“We are looking at this as an opportunity to be interim housing while new supply comes forward, not just from the social housing sector, but also through the market rental projects we have devel-

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Vancouver’s superintendent of schools was the lone district staffer to make north of $200,000 in the 20152016 fiscal year, according to documents released by the district earlier this month.

The district’s Statement of Financial Information (SOFI) report indicates Scott Robinson’s earnings came in at $243,763.64. Robinson, who is currently on medical leave, also claimed $15,153 in expenses.

The report lists all payments made to trustees and employees with remuneration exceeding $75,000 in the year from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016. It defines remuneration as salary, wages, taxable benefits, payment into trust or any form of income deferral paid by the board to an employee.

The report does not include anything payable under a severance agreement.

Secondary school teacher James Mace was the second-highest earner on the list, at $192,986. School

district staff did not explain Mace’s exact job title, other than to say he is a secondary school teacher. Mace landed in the number two spot in 2012 as well, and at that time, the Courier was told it was due to the several positions he held: a district teacher for the Vancouver Learning Network, as an adult education teacher and as a summer school teacher.

Official trustee Dianne Turner earned a salary of $192,192 from her former employer, the Delta School District.

Other district staffers in the top 10 include: Rick Krowchuk, former secretary treasurer: $173,733.83 Govan Keng, secondary school teacher: $173,154.57 Janet Stewart, former associate superintendent: $166,972.52 Janson Ho, project office director for the Vancouver Project Office: $163,214.79 David Nelson, associate superintendent: $156,973.45 Peter Evans, principal at Maple Grove elementary: $155,766.88

Robert Schindel, director of instruction: $149,257.30 Jim Stassinopoulos, secondary school teacher: $145,909.48 The job titles listed in the report cover up until June 30 of this year, and given the massive turnover at the district, some of those titles may no longer be accurate.

As for expense totals, Brian Kuhn’s total of $9,808 landed him in the second spot after Robinson.

Kuhn is the district’s director of information learning technology, and a school board communications rep explained his totals related to “a number of out-of-country conferences” and a membership fee to a national I.T. association.

Former trustees Joy Alexander, Patti Bacchus, Chris Richardson, Stacy Robertson and Allan Wong made $26,975. Penny Noble made $26,963, Janet Fraser earned $26,987 and Fraser Ballantyne made $27,983. Former chair Mike Lombardi earned $28,161. Ballantyne’s expense total of $2,245 was the highest among elected officials.

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THE YEAR IN QUOTES

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In the hundreds, if not thousands, of stories the Courier publishes every year, there is one common thread. People.

We talk with a lot of people. To date, we have never interviewed a policy or statistic. We have never scribbled down a scintillating quote from a building.

And feelings, essences and auras are notoriously unreliable. Here’s a small sampling of the most compelling things people — politicians, refugees, artists, athletes, even a wiener dog owner — have told us this year.

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City living

I went over and I saw something I did not expect to see — a lineup of roughly 50 individuals, all looking to rent the same place.

It was shocking and overwhelming for me because it wasn’t just students. It was people that have gotten their degrees, it was individuals who have kids, who have established careers. As a student, it was disheartening.

Dario Garousian, a third-year UBC student on his hunt for a place to rent in Vancouver.

This is the front lines for people still trying to keep it together.

They’ve still got a car and they’re going to try and make that work, but your ability to find work gets harder and harder the more you’re living like this. It gets to be a pretty desperate story.

Coun. Andrea Reimer after talking to a person living in a car during the city’s annual homeless count.

I just wanted to be really clear, almost all Vancouverites will not pay the empty homes tax. This is only going to apply to those with second or third homes that are sitting empty, or empty most of the year.

Mayor Gregor Robertson on the city’s empty home tax, a measure to encourage property owners to rent out their homes to ease the rental crisis in Vancouver.

We’re going to need significant action to address the market that has basically taken the option for home ownership, and even rental, away from many people in our city.

Mayor Gregor Robertson introducing the city’s new vacant homes tax.

I’m not a big fan of development — me and Leo love to sell buildings to maintain the church status — but my manager said to me earlier: God also renovates.

Rav Rampuri, who operates Holy Realtors with his business

next to you — knowing I know my neighbour, I know them by name. Doing things within that community is very appealing to us. And, there’s a financial aspect of knowing that as a group there’s some cost certainty. It’s by no means cheap, but there are some cost certainties. We know ahead what we’re getting into and what we’re doing.

Mike Lang about his desire to live in a “cohousing lite” building.

The point of regulation is to protect people, it’s to protect consumers. It is not a right when it comes to self-regulation. Selfregulation is very much a privilege that’s granted on behalf of the public by government to professions that say they can do the job and prove that they can do the job. Well, the real estate sector has had 10 years to get it right on selfregulation and they haven’t. So we are going to end the right of the real estate sector to self-regulate.

Premier Christy Clark on the province’s decision to end the real estate industry’s ability to self-regulate.

Housing is first and foremost about homes. It’s not just a commodity to make money with and we’re going to make sure that those who treat housing as a business are treated and taxed accordingly for that use.

Mayor Gregor Robertson on the city’s plan to implement an empty home tax with or without the province.

Even though we were refugees, it didn’t matter because we were willing to work hard. That’s why I love Canada.

Paula Sim, who left Cambodia with her husband and now owns Duffin’s Donuts. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

partner Leonardo Di Francesco, selling religious properties for the past 21 years.

If we had a website, I wouldn’t be able to sleep.

Sharon Xie who runs AB Scale Model with her husband, making architectural models for developments 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The real standout this year would be the market movement for single-family properties. You would probably have to go back — if you went back to 1980, there’s probably only two or three other times when single-family properties in Vancouver have moved by this much this quickly.

Jason Grant, regional assessor for B.C. Assessment, on how singlefamily property assessments had skyrocketed.

The first step is to really deal with the foreign money. This is what has been driving everything else. It’s driven a lot of speculation, both foreign and local speculators in terms of our housing market. Our homes are being treated like piggy banks by a lot of foreign investors. It’s madness that we’re doing that.

Justin Fung, a member of HALT — Housing Action for Local Taxpayers, which staged a housing rally called #HALT the Madness.

I actually think the city planner’s role or the chief planner’s role — whatever jurisdiction you’re in they call it slightly different things — it’s kind of a twin role. [It’s] to provoke possibilities, but at the same time really be a convener where you’re not only welcoming but excavating other opinions and mining those for what’s behind them, what’s underneath them and what the real possibilities are.

Gil Kelley, the city’s new chief planner.

People referred to him as a bright light that people were drawn to, like bees to a flame or bees to honey. He charmed everybody from his colleagues to his clients to the leaders in the community — everyone in the community, regardless of their background or social position. He really had time for everybody. We frankly all learned [from him] and owe such a debt to him because he saw the value of everyone and what they could bring to help us design a project.

Michael Heeney, a principal at Bing Thom Architects, on Bing Thom’s death.

A big part of what we’re interested in is community and feeling connected to the people that live

I was astonished to think I had found 410 houses and that’s just one person. If everybody was doing this, the whole city would look like it had a bad case of the measles.

Caroline Adderson, of the Facebook page Vancouver Vanishes, on an interactive map tracking demolished character homes.

Home front

My kids were terrified and used to hide in closets. Now, they are able to sleep. I’m not worried about them.

They have smiles all the time.

Mansour Arafa on settling with his family in the 2400 Court Motel on Kingsway after fleeing Homs, the western Syrian city largely reduced to rubble in the country’s ongoing civil war.

This [recognition] is not something our family has advocated for publicly. But I think it’s great. We’re really humbled by the honour. This is something that’s permanent and we’re honoured by that in this great city that we grew up in.

Hopefully, it serves as a reminder of the work that needs to be done moving forward, especially as we get more and more refugees coming and more immigrants coming. We have to continue on with that work to serve these vulnerable populations.

Daniel To, after his mother Lilian To, was honoured with a street moniker and plaque at the entrances to Shanghai Alley.

She was a driving force behind the immigrant aid organization S.U.C.C.E.S.S. before she died in 2005.

Reconciliation

It’s been a very interesting and steep learning curve for me in how we as a city can do this work. We’re figuring this out as we go and there are probably areas where we’ll screw up. But there’s opportunities for us to strengthen those relationships.

City manager Sadhu Johnston on the city’s reconciliation efforts with First Nations.

Regardless of the fact that this is my land, I want this to be a happy community and I want the people who are living here to be happy with each other. There’s no reason why it should be any other way.

First Nations elder Bill Lightbown on reconciliation.

Dealing with death has been a battle throughout my whole life; it seems to be a constant factor in everything I’ve dealt with. Going through what I went through, it seemed like nothing would ever go my way with regards to family, friends and some of my closest friends dying. You get depressed and things go dark. Basketball seemed to be the only place I could go to.

Gene Wolff, a Team Vancouver basketball player who participated in the inaugural Haico World Indigenous International Basketball Challenge.

I think in Canada people intuitively want to believe that the land is special. In the U.S., they’re patriotic about their nation-state, about being Americans. But in Canada, we are patriotic about the land. I think that’s a First Nations value.

Rev. Ray Aldred, head of the indigenous studies program at the Vancouver School of Theology.

Drug policy

We have a lot of great programs in place with Vancouver Coastal Health. But the one gap that we do have is with treatment on demand. We don’t have a city where if somebody is addicted to drugs and they need help and they come forward to a police officer, or just want to self-report and get help, they don’t have anywhere to go.

Police Chief Adam Palmer on the spike in property crime and how it is largely being fueled by drug users to feed their addiction.

We’re going to do everything within our power to minimize the chances of us getting robbed again, and we’d appreciate it if the police would give our stolen property back to us. There’s no good reason why they can’t do that.

Marijuana dispensary owner David Malmo-Levine on wanting the VPD to return his marijuana that was taken in a robbery and later recovered by police.

If someone’s angry, that’s fine.

But then it took a different turn — ‘I’m going to come and get you, we’re going to find you,’ things like that, which crosses the line.

Coun. Kerry Jang on being threatened by people upset with the city’s new rules to regulate marijuana dispensaries. The threats led to city hall’s corporate security team implementing a security plan for Jang and his family.

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Left: I have a big family now. I’m so happy. Everyone’s so nice to me. I’m so happy.

Joyce Wong, at her 75th birthday party at Hastings Park organized by the skateboarding community. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER Above: It feels wonderful. I’m ecstatic. I love the people we associate with. We have grown quite a bit from strangers, trying to get to know each other, to [where] it feels a lot more like a family.

Because with all these committees, potlucks and everything else we do, by the time we move in it won’t be like moving into a new building with new people. You’re moving into a building that you know who is there to help you make all the decisions. You’re moving in with your friends and family. That’s how we’re beginning to feel about each other — that we’re family.

Jack Brondwin on progress on the city’s second cohousing project — Little Mountain Cohousing — in the Riley Park neighbourhood. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

I needed to get jacked on something. If you can’t shoot heroin or you can’t rob banks, what do you do? You tell jokes.

Mark Hughes, on how stand-up comedy helped transform his life.

Political climate

Just the tenor of the politics right now is so toxic and has really reached a boiling point. I think we all need to do anything we can to steer the outcome. Casting a vote from across the border is the one way I can do it. I can’t imagine a Trump presidency, and it scares me.

Kaye Krishna, the city’s new general manager of development services, who is originally from Ohio and voted in the U.S. election.

What we have witnessed from the Vancouver School Board is a misplaced focus on political tactics rather than responsible stewardship.

Education Minister Mike Bernier after nine school board trustees were fired in October.

If I thought this project was unsafe for the B.C. coast, I would reject it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on approving the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which will almost triple the amount of oil being pumped from Alberta to Burnaby and increase tanker traffic in Vancouver waters from an average of five per month to 34.

Sporting life

I set goals and see them through. I like to say you either lead, follow or get out of the way.

There isn’t really an alternative.

Floris van Weelderen, who took up a boxing course to help alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

We’re treated like royalty and everyone has been really appreciative with our level of play. This is the experience of a

lifetime, and these kids will take away many, many memories that they’ll have for the rest of their lives.

Vito Bordignon, Hastings Little League baseball coach after his team was eliminated from the Little League World Series.

People definitely come for the cats over the yoga. All of our teachers were kinda thrown off by that because, well, you just can’t ask people to close their eyes in class — that’s just not fair.

Instructor Emmanuelle Rousseau, who led a yoga class called Cats on Your Mats, where cats mingle with participants.

They are having fun, and fitness is good for them. A school’s runners, K through 7, they are all on one team, and that’s what I like about it. You can really develop a cool school spirit because kids are all trying to do the best they can for their school.

Ken Elmer, retired elementary school P.E. teacher and volunteer race director for the annual Trout Lake cross-country meet at John Hendry Park.

You have to be fit to play baseball, but you don’t get fit playing baseball.

Sean Elbe, co-director with the East Vancouver Baseball League I think everyone is a nerd in their own way — jocks are just nerds for athletics.

Fred Cholowski, drum major with the Thunderbird Marching Band What we represent is heart over height because we feel that we play with more heart and we don’t have any height.

Daniel David, St. Patrick’s Celtics shooting guard It ain’t my body that’s injured Cedrick Henderson, Hamber Griffins quarterback

The thought went through my mind: ‘You might have just lost this for everyone.’ I shook it off.

Jules Duong, Britannia Bruins point guard

For the history books

If the watch ever comes over to Canada, it will be another aspect of completion, but for us, we know the story and we can put that to rest — that’s the most important thing.

Ross Chapman upon hearing the news that a watch belonging to his wife’s uncle, Henry Law, had been found in Holland 70 years after Law’s plane was shot down in the Second World War. Everybody is free. You can get jobs. You can buy any type of food, you can buy a car — I could go on forever. If you work hard in Canada, very likely everything in your life will be beautiful.

Tony Kozak, former assistant dean of the UBC forestry faculty, reflects on fleeing Hungary and his subsequent life in Canada I do think though, looking back on it, it’s become history now. It’s in the history books.

And for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it won’t mean anything to them. But I think the civilian population and all they went through tends to be forgotten when you read about history. That can go back centuries. It was the peasantry that the armies always fought on.

So it was the peasantry who lost their crops and their children and their cattle, if they had any. And it doesn’t seem to have changed much, does it?

Patricia Massy, Courier editor Michael Kissinger’s 93-year-old grandmother reflecting on her experience of the Second World War in England.

Humans of Vancouver

I think Vancouver is a city that’s kind of obsessed with prestige. But the thing is, we

don’t really talk about failure and how the road to success is paved with failure. There are a lot of sh** sandwiches that you have to eat first.

Kei Baritugo, producer/host of F***Up Nights Vancouver

going to beat your Ponyta!’ And we had a little moment of pause where, wow, this is really a conversation that’s happening.

Derek Jang, the Vancouver Aquarium’s acting assistant manager of interpretive delivery.

I’ve got a family here. I absolutely love this neighbourhood. People understand me, people don’t judge me. You have to put a little bit of elbow grease to see the shine, but below the rough surface is a gem.

Justin, on life as a binner on the Downtown Eastside.

I remember in undergrad, living in residence, I was a lot of people’s ‘first Jew.’ I think they’re a little disappointed I’m not a Hasidiclooking version of Jackie Chan.

Jamie Hsu, on being Chinese and Jewish.

Westerners like to grow flowers!

We don’t like flowers because you can’t eat flowers. There’s no reward.

You can only look at them. With produce, you can play in the yard, and you can have something to eat.

East Side gardener Jason Lee. At the height there were a lot of video stores in town and they all did well. I didn’t even consider them to be competition. It was a community. Now it’s a community of one. I’d like to turn it over to my son who’s 10 right now. I keep telling him he’s going to inherit the empire. We’re just going to keep going as long as we can, as long as people keep coming here and supporting us we’ll be here.

Darren Gay, owner of the city’s last two remaining movie rental stores, Black Dog Video.

She does have hundreds of followers and she does have more friends than I do. She knows people I don’t know. I’ve seen pictures of her with people I don’t know, people I’ve never seen or heard of.

Richard Wilger on his wellknown dachshund dog Hunter.

Vancouver Aquarium staff and volunteers have gone a little Pokémon crazy in the last week, along with the rest of the world. It was just yesterday I was kind of trashtalking my boss. ‘My Vaporeon is

I’m not one of these people who thinks that the decline of Yiddish is the worst thing that ever happened to the Jews. There are a lot worse things that happened to the Jews.

Faith Jones, a local scholar of Yiddish culture.

WE ARE EVEN HAVING BAG PIPES!!!!!!!!!!! THIS is NO MICKEY MOUSE OPERATION. Ruth Enns, enthusiastic organizer of Kitsilano high school Class of 1946’s 70-year “grand finale” reunion at the Marine Drive Golf Club.

Our society is not really good about dealing with death. We shuffle people off and have someone else to look after that piece. As people suddenly face these issues, they often have no clue what to do, what to say. Somebody dies and a lot of people don’t even know what to say to somebody, which is why the sympathy card business is such a flourishing business.

Anneke Rees who co-facilitates Death Café events.

Somebody asked me what tricks I’ve taught him and I don’t want to teach him tricks because he’s a wild crow. For me, it’s just hanging out with my buddy. I realize he’s getting older, changing, and doing his own thing. I will take every day as much as I can.

Shawn Bergman on his unlikely friendship with winged Internet celebrity Canuck the crow.

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As this year draws to a close, I’m willing to bet that 12 months ago most of us had never even heard of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

The drug was developed in 1959 and has been often used in the form of a patch to relieve severe pain experienced by cancer patients.

But according to the executive director of the Drug Policy Coalition Donald MacPherson, fentanyl and its use has become the latest “product of drug prohibition.”

Criminals have figured it out. An amount equal to a grain of salt when mixed with cocaine or heroin can give the addict more bang for their buck and too often have deadly effects. A package the size of your fist shipped here from China is worth a small fortune on the streets.

And this serial killer has been increasingly peddled to addicts throughout B.C. and across the country for four or five years now. Those courageous and committed folks who work to prevent deaths caused by drug overdoses

have watched the number of fatalities climb and have pushed for more supervised injection sites like Insite.

But their efforts were thwarted by a Harper-led federal Conservative government, first in the courts and, when they failed there, with a piece of legislation, “The Respect for Community Act.” That legislation established insurmountable barriers to harm reduction that only led to more misery and death.

There has also been a steady and building movement advocating the decriminalization of drugs particularly since the cause of “harm reduction” was taken up by former Vancouver Mayor Philip Owen 15 years ago.

Since then there have been two Vancouver-based projects dealing with heroin addicts: “Naomi” and “Salome.”

Both provided addicts with regular doses of pharmaceutically pure heroin or hydromorphone in a controlled environment described this way: “Throughout the treatment period, an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers and counsellors are available to help participants achieve stability in their life, seek employment and find suitable housing.”

As a result, lives stabilized and criminal activity declined.

But the federal government’s refusal to go any further has meant that those studies have been left to gather dust while the death toll among addicts — particularly thanks to fentanyl entering the scene — has soared. In British Columbia, there were 480 overdose deaths in 2015 and 755 for the first 11 months of 2016.

In April of this year, B.C.’s Medical Health Officer declared a state of medical emergency. On Sept. 20, the day before folks received their welfare cheque and many on the Downtown East Side fell prey to drug dealers, former park board commissioner Sarah Blyth and long-time drug addiction advocate Ann Livingston erected a “pop-up clinic” of sorts to help prevent overdose deaths.

It took the November figures on deaths to actually jolt the provincial government and Health Minister Terry Lake to start funding and authorizing more supervised injection sites even though those sites failed to meet the criteria under the existing federal law.

And while on that subject, it took the Trudeau Liberals a year after their election to introduce Bill C37, which will

roll back Harper’s Respect for Community Act and replace it with conditions for opening up a supervised injection site more closely aligned with the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling. That act has still to be passed. And even then it will take time to have an effect.

Meanwhile, Vancouver city council at its last meeting approved a 0.5 per cent hike in next year’s property tax to assist the city’s first responders in meeting the growing crisis of overdose deaths in the city.

Yet, I can’t help but think if fentanyl was a virus killing people and not a controlled drug, governments would be doing much more to mitigate its effect.

I agree with advocates who have been saying for years now that we need to change the laws around controlled drugs, stop criminalizing drug use and treat addiction as a health issue.

Portugal is often cited as a country that has followed this path. And what they have found is that drug-related deaths are down as is criminal activity and all the costs related to those activities.

Failing that, the numbers of fatalities is likely to grow as that serial killer continues to rack up its victims.

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My two favourite photographs from the past year have everything to do with the tension and curiosity between subjects. It’s the interplay.

In one, a staged profile photo of Jasper Schiedel was given unexpected life and depth when a boys P.E. class came outside to O’Hagan Field. The private Catholic school inspires generational loyalty and tradition, and the young runners looking over their shoulder at the older athlete captures that spirit of potential.

In the next one, part of a live action sequence that also happens to be on a track, Bridgett Baziw and Kendra Lewis maintain a suicide pace seconds before collapsing after the finish at Point Grey secondary. Both teenage runners gave their maximum effort in this battle and it was a powerful moment to witness.

Theirs is a friendly rivalry that will continue.

Both shots were taken by the Courier’s staff photographer, the incomparable Dan Toulgoet. The sports photography you see in these pages wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of Jennifer Gauthier, Chung Chow, Rob Kruyt and Rebecca Blissett.

1. Churchill Bulldog Eloise Faehndrich (no. 10) drives down court in a semi-final win over the Kitsilano Blue Demons in the Langara Challenge Jan. 22, 2016. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET 2. Notre Dame quarterback Steven Moretto (no.

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4. Britannia Bruins senior girls basketball coach Mike Evans huddles with players moments before the gym was named in his honour Jan. 14, 2016.

5. UBC Thunderbird A.J. Holloway (no. 3) and Ryerson Ram Kadeem Green (no. 15) reach for the rebound during a 109-101 Ryerson quarterfinal victory in the CIS men’s basketball championship at the Thunderbird Sports Centre March 17, 2016.

6. Lord Byng’s Bridgett Baziw and Van Tech’s Kendra Lewis battle it out in the Grade 8 girls 3000m during the city athletics championship at the Point Grey track and field May 11, 2016. Baziw won by 0.23 seconds.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; Jamuna Akosua El Moor, Private Canadian in trust, non statutory citizen of Canada, hereby claim all right title and interest of the property described herein as parcels; 1. RN082 663 865CA-001 thru RN082 663 865CA-999; 2.

RN082 663 794CA-001 thru RN082 663 794CA-999; 3. RN082 663 785CA-001 thru RN082 663 785CA-999; 4. RN082 663 729CA-001 thru RN082 663 729CA-999 and; 5.

RN082 663 803CA-001 thru RN082 663 803CA-999; whereby all Legal interests by nature and by characteristic in Public Nominee; JAMUNA AKOSUA EL MOOR and MOOR, JAMUNA AKOSUA EL, including its property is evidenced and CONVEYED said Legal interests by nature to the Trustee(s) described in; RN057 320 395CA-000 thru RN057 320 395CA-999, while retaining and holding all Equitable interests by nature in Public Nominee (or, potentially under R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44), JAMUNA AKOSUA EL MOOR, MOOR, JAMUNA AKOSUA EL, etc. Jamuna Akosua El Moor is without notice of any bona fide or would be bona fide purchasers for value or bona fide adverse claimant either by nature or characteristic by legal or equitable rights of claim and that Jamuna Akosua El Moor is without notice of any Superior prior, equal, equitable or legal right, title or interest competent to suspend or confuse my equitable and/or legal interest by nature or characteristic, to said property.

All written objections on the ownership or superior claim of trust(s) and estate(s), should be directed to trustee(s) for the Jamuna Aksoua El Moor Trust, no later than 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, please contact: covenantor: private canadian in trust (of union of counties, regions, provinces, territories of Dominion of Canada), mail in care of: 1545 - 55th avenue, county of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Covenantor/grantor in trust expressly reserves all rights and liberties.

NOTICE UNDER THE LAND ACT (s.33(3) and s.56 and 99 (2)); NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; Natalie Margo Desiree Moor, Private Canadian in trust, non statutory citizen of Canada, hereby claim all right title and interest of the property described herein as parcels; 1. RN082 663 825CA-001 thru RN082 663 825CA-999; 2.

RN082 663 851CA-001 thru RN082 663 851CA-999; 3. RN082 663 746CA-001 thru RN082 663 746CA-999 and; 4. RN082 663 834CA-001 thru RN082 663 834CA-999; whereby all Legal interests by nature and by characteristic in Public Nominee; NATALIE MARGO DESIREE MOOR and MOOR, NATALIE MARGO DESIREE, including its property is evidenced and CONVEYED said Legal interests by nature to the Trustee(s) described in; RN057 320 166CA-000 thru RN057 320 166CA-999, while retaining and holding all Equitable interests by nature in Public Nominee (or, potentially under R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44), NATALIE MARGO DESIREE MOOR and MOOR, NATALIE MARGO DESIREE, etc. I, Natalie Margo Desiree Moor am without notice of any bona fide or would be bona fide purchasers for value or bona fide adverse claimant either by nature or characteristic by legal or equitable rights of claim and that Natalie Margo Desiree Moor is without notice of any Superior prior, equal, equitable or legal right, title or interest competent to suspend or confuse my equitable and/or legal interest by nature or characteristic, to said property.

All written objections on the ownership or superior claim of trust(s) and estate(s), should be directed to trustee(s) for the Natalie Margo Desiree Moor Trust, no later than 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, please contact: covenantor: private canadian in trust (of union of counties, regions, provinces, territories of Dominion of Canada), mail in care of: 1545 - 55th avenue, county of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Covenantor/grantor in trust expressly reserves all rights and liberties.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; Bernard Bedu Yankson, Private Canadian in trust, non statutory citizen of Canada, hereby claim all right title and interest of the property described herein as parcels; 1. RN082 663 715CA-001 thru RN082 663 715CA-999; 2.

RN082 663 777CA-001 thru RN082 663 777CA-999; 3. RN082 663 750CA-001 thru RN082 663 750CA-999; 4. RN082 663 879CA-001 thru RN082 663 879CA-999; 5.

RN082 663 882CA-001 thru RN082 663 882CA-999; 6. . RN082 663 817CA-001 thru RN082 663 817CA-999; 7. RN082 663 763CA-001 thru RN082 663 763CA-999; 8.

RN082 663 732CA-001 thru RN082 663 732CA-999; 9. RN082 663 848CA-001 thru RN082 663 848CA-999; whereby all Legal interests by nature and by characteristic in Public Nominee; BERNARD BEDU YANKSON and YANKSON, BERNARD BEDU YANKSON, including its property is evidenced and CONVEYED said Legal interests by nature to the Trustee(s) described in; RN057 314 151CA-000 thru RN057 314 151CA-999, while retaining and holding all Equitable interests by nature in Public Nominee (or, potentially under R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44), BERNARD BEDU YANKSON and YANKSON, BERNARD BEDU YANKSON, etc. I; Bernard Bedu Yankson am without notice of any bona fide or would be bona fide purchasers for value or bona fide adverse claimant either by nature or characteristic by legal or equitable rights of claim and that Bernard Bedu Yankson is without notice of any Superior prior, equal, equitable or legal right, title or interest competent to suspend or confuse my equitable and/or legal interest by nature or characteristic, to said property.

All written objections on the ownership or superior claim of trust(s) and estate(s), should be directed to trustee(s) for the Bernard Yanskon Trust, no later than 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, please contact: covenantor: private canadian in trust (of union of counties, regions, provinces, territories of Dominion of Canada), mail in care of: 1545 - 55th avenue, county of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Covenantor/grantor in trust expressly reserves all rights and liberties.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, DE C E M B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 6

Holiday Hours (Both Locations): Dec 31st Jan 1st

7am – 6pm Closed

Happy New Years from our Family to yours.

We wish you all the best in 2017 Cauliflower Product of California 3.95/kg

1

79 /lb

Red Peppers

Classico

Primo

Assorted Varieties 375-400g Bag

Assorted Varieties 218-650mL Jar

Red, Black, or Garbanzo 540mL Tin

Coffee

Product of Spain 6.59/kg

2

Nabob

5

99 /lb

Pasta Sauces 3 for

700

98

Beans

109

Kraft Dinner

Sun Rype Blue Label

Nature’s Path

Nature’s Path Pure Oats

Cracker Barrel

225g Box

1L Tetra

Assorted Varieties 320-400g Box

Assorted Varieties 320g Box

Assorted Varieties 600-650g Block

Original 2 for

149

Apple Juice

Hot Cereals

119

349

319

Eggo

Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain

Assorted Varieties 280g Box

Assorted Varieties 340-430g Box

The Mozza 370g Box

Waffles 2 for

5

00

Angus

Pizzas

48.48/Kg

Pizzas

799

Beef Tenderloin Roast

Oatmeal

Assorted Flavours From Canada 150g Box

599 GREATYE for Ner! Dinn

Boursin Cheese

599 /ea

Cheese

848 Alexis de Portneuf

Brie Francais From France

399

/100g

Australian

GREAT! Buy

Frenched Lamb Rack 37.45/Kg

2199

1699

/lb

Shop Online www.stongs.com

/lb

By Phone (604) 630-3154

In Store VANCOUVER

4221 Dunbar St NORTH VANCOUVER

2150 Dollarton Hwy

Open

Prices

7 days

Dec 30

a week

thru

7 -10 am

pm

Jan 5